Baseballcap

However, Cap (short cap or cap, baseball cap ( Scheinanglizismus ), even baseball cap ) is a variant of the cap with a bit more sun visor, which was worn especially in the United States and among young people, now worldwide, and also to service cap of many authorities and other organizations became. It has its origins as a headdress of baseball players, but is now generally part of the leisure clothing, but also the uniforms.

Properties

Baseball caps are usually made from linen, cotton, wool or polyester, reinforced on the front and have instead of a hat brim forward a stiffened plate, the sun, rain and in addition serves as a surge protector like a traditional baseball cap as. Interior is mostly sewn sweatband at the bottom. Baseball caps are, the head circumference of the support offered accordingly depending on the model in different sizes. The English name for it is " fitted". The diameters are usually expressed in inches (eg, 7 1/2), while the circumference is measured in centimeters. Professional baseball players wear exclusively fitted caps.

For other purposes, the universal size has, however, prevailed. The proper fit is adjusted either by an elastic sweatband or a push button, Velcro or clip fastening at the back. Caps with snap closure are also called " snapback " according to the English name.

History

Popular baseball cap was supposedly the fact that on 24 April 1849, the players of the baseball clubs of New York Knickerbockers in a game in New Jersey instead of the then customary straw hats stiff Wore Caps, who were called " hats hemispherical " and initially had no umbrella.

The carrying method with the screen backwards also comes from the baseball sport itself, where some positions wear a protective mask over his face, which is not compatible with the screen in front.

Nowadays usually carry all the players of the defense, all referees and coaches during the game baseball caps. Whereas the player of the attacking team wear protective helmets, but these are also equipped with a shield.

In Germany, the baseball cap was first popular in the 1970s among young people. From the early 1980s came, first from American street gangs starting, the fashion on to wear the hat with the screen backwards. Different youth cultures took over then this appearance. Studies of the Ig Nobel Prize winner John Trinkaus showed the mid-1990s that between 10 percent and 40 percent of the observed students wore their baseball hats backwards.

The mid-1990s took the very inexpensive to produce baseball cap on the American model their way into the uniform fashion of German-speaking countries. She pushed until today next to the beret in many authorities, government and civil organizations and associations which until then preferred mountain or working cap and other traditional headgear.

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